This is the reason I have been absent from Casting most of the last two years. I hope you enjoy my journey shared with whanau and friends. Direct video link: What are we going to do about Mum? Maori TV…
Kia Ora Koutou! There is such an amazing amount of talent around Aotearoa, Te Moana Nui a Kiwa & beyond! The online application form has closed. We even left it open for just a little longer, but as you can…
**UPDATE: Online applications have closed**
**UPDATE: Online application form closed** I’m very pleased to announce the Official Casting Call from Disney. Enter your audition submission here. “Walt Disney Animation Studios is launching a global casting call for a key role for their upcoming feature, Moana,…
Inspired by true events, first-hand accounts and employing actual newsreel footage, this drama follows the aftermath of the Earthquakes that befell New Zealand’s Christchurch between 2010 and 2011, telling a universal story of family, hope and triumph against the odds.…
Variously praised as a major step forward in indigenous cinema, attacked for overambition, and little screened, Te Rua marked Barry Barclay’s impassioned follow-up to Ngati. This story of stolen Māori carvings in a Berlin museum sees Barclay plunging into issues of control of…
Firstly congratulations to Stan Walker on his memorable meeting with Beyonce during her recent tour here. Stan is a humble young man who represented his people well. He has also done us proud in his acting debut as Turei in…
White Lies submitted for the Oscars as New Zealand’s Best Foreign Language entry. It’s about the nature of identity: those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman. She is the healer…
Mount Zion. Turei’s family are hard-working potato farm workers in rural New Zealand. A talented musician, Turei dreams of his band being the support act for Bob Marley’s 1979 tour. But it’s a dream that challenges the traditions and values of…
Twenty years have passed since Billy T James died at the age of 42, and he still manages to make us laugh. Tonight on TV ONE, the story of New Zealand’s best loved entertainer is being told in the Sunday…
‘Risk. Risk anything. Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.’ – Katherine Mansfield The true story of nineteen year old Katherine Mansfield’s…
It’s fifty years since Shelly Gentry disappeared and 50’s one of those numbers that seem to mean something. People celebrate fifty. Maybe islands do too – so watch out! In pre-European New Zealand, the tiny Island of Kaitangata was the…
Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. They’re staring down the barrel of their thirtieth birthdays, but still act as if they’re sixteen; they get drunk,…
STOLEN is an emotional thriller based on the real life 2002 kidnapping of Baby Kahu Durie. The entire nation watched the anguish and courage of the parents and the calm forensic approach of the Police as they worked together to…
Strait-laced Museum Curator Ian Jones is about to marry his boss’s daughter, Fiona. Preparations are underway and Fiona is already drawing up seating plans. So when a repatriation claim comes into the museum for a Maori carving to be returned…
Walt Disney Home Entertainment presents THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN, a thrilling and epic adventure starring Anne Hathaway (THE PRINCESS DIARIES) and Christopher Gorham (TV’s FELICITY). When 19-year-old John Groberg (Gorham) is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he…
Misha (Stephen Papps), a once celebrated filmmaker who has fallen on hard times, resolves to leave his homeland in search of a film-friendly country where he can pursue his career. With wife, Nadia (Elena Stejko) in tow he sets sail…
A romantic comedy about Emily and James, a young couple who must overcome the expectations of Emily’s parents in order to bring happiness to themselves and those around them. [jwplayer config=”XTINA PLAYER” mediaid=”404″] Official Website
Described as a “Māori Twilight Zone“, Mataku was a series of half-hour dramatic narratives steeped in Māori experience with the “unexplained”. Two South Pacific Pictures-produced series screened on TV3; a later series screened on TV One in 2005. Each episode…
After the Great Chaos in the time of the Remaking a Travelling Fantasia are set on a Quest to save their home from ruin and their future from evil. They are joined…